Twilight Saloon
Takes place in one place, a beer hall, over the course of one evening. Uchida employs this concentration of setting and time to fashion a microcosm for a group portrait of Japan. One by one, the regulars of the bar appear: the pianist who dreams of becoming a composer but has disappeared from the music world after a knifing; a stripper who had planned to be a ballet dancer; an elderly painter trying to make a living at pachinko, and who rues his art having been used for militarist propaganda during the war; a young waitress considering elopement; a colonel turned real estate broker who attempts to rouse the crowd in military song until he realizes the tune has been transformed by marchers in the street into a leftist chant. The "twilight" is more than just a time of day; here, it is a state of being, a suspension between past and present, between the camaraderie of the saloon and the harsh world outside.
Year: 1955
Genre: Drama
Studio: Shintoho Company
Director: Tomu Uchida
Cast: Isamu Kosugi, Hiroshi Ono, Takuya Miyahara, Korema Arima, Jun Tatara, Hitomi Nozoe
Crew: Tomu Uchida (Director), Shigeo Takahashi (Assistant Director), Hideo Kasama (Editor), Rokurô Nishigaki (Director of Photography), Gyoji Shimomura (Assistant Director), Eizō Yamagiwa (Assistant Director)
Runtime: 94 minutes
Release: Jun 19, 1955
IMDb: 8.00/10 by 3 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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